Observing international relations
Subtitle: Niklas Luhmann and world politics
By: edited by Mathias Albert and Lena Hilkermeier.
Contributors: Albert, Mathias; Hilkermeier, Lena, 1971-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: International relations -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mathias Albert; title: On the modern systems theory of society and IR. Contacts and disjunctures between different kinds of theorizing / Mathias Albert; title: Politics, modern systems theory and the critical purpose of international relations theory / Thomas Diez; title: "Corpus mysticum": Niklas Luhmann's evocation of world society /Stefan Rossbach; title: The "English school" and world society / Chris Brown; title: Sociological institutionalism and the empirical study of world society / George M. Thomas; title: World society from the bottom up / Lothar Brock; title: World society, systems theory and the classical sociology of modernity / Dietrich Jung; title: Systems and sovereignty - a systems theoretical look at the transformation of sovereignty / Anders Esmark; title: "World opinion" and the turn to post-sovereign international governance / Hans-Martin Jaeger; title: Society's war: the evolution of a self-referential military system / Gorm Harste; title: Organizations in/and world society: a theoretical prolegomenon / Mathias Albert and Lena Hilkermeier; title: Governance in a world society: the perspective of systems theory / Dieter Kerwer; title: Constructivism and international relations: an analysis of Luhmann's conceptualization of power / Stefano Guzzini; title: Concluding remarks / Mathias Albert.